Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Next Tuesday is Primary Day 🗳️ ! I keep checking the board of Elections website but no primaries locally despite the very empty Early Voting site on Elm Avenue. Seems kind of silly 😋. Five weeks to Ugly Truck Day 🚚. Mostly cloudy and 56 degrees at the Bethlehem Central High School. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 55 degrees. The skies will clear around 10 am.
Out for the morning walk 🚶🏻 at seven o’clock. 😴 I probably could have waited until eight as I’m working from home today but I like to maintain the habit and on humid days, a shower 🚿 is good before work even when working from home. Tomorrow and Thursday I’ll be in the office 🏢 and then I am heading up to Piseco-Powley. Hopefully they won’t be tying up things downtown with the filming, it could be a pain today with no buses going down Capitol Hill due to the filming, although maybe interesting looking out the office windows, although my corner office in the opposite end of the building. 🎬
I didn’t get propane, so I will probably want to get back to Tractor Supply on Wednesday after work ⛽ so I have plenty of fuel for the long weekend up in the Adirondacks. Maybe it would be fun to get some charcoal too for cooking breakfast — sure you can do a wood fire but the slow low fire of charcoal can make some pretty good breakfasts for sure. Among other things. I can’t believe I spent $90 at Walmart yesterday, but I needed undershirts among other things. 👕 Sometimes you just need to get supplies. I might have to adjust my budget going forward, but for now I am maintaining my account balance okay while continuing on my savings plans. 🏕 One thing I am really looking to being off-grid this weekend — in the sense of having no cell reception — as so many of the weekends lately have been remote work, and I spend too much time up in the woods playing with my phone.
Today will have isolated showers between 9am and noon, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after noon. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 74 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 27th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 11am. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 78 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1988.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:57 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.7° from the due south horizon (-0.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:53 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (297°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (304°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:36 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 28 seconds with dusk around 9:09 pm, which is 25 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the west-southwest (258°) at an altitude of 37° from the horizon, 237,152 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:56 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 68 degrees. The dew point will be 58 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, an increase of 24 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 53 degrees at 5am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 1st. Maximum dew point of 58 at 6pm. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 49 degrees. The record low of 40 occurred back in 1961.
On this day in 1967, The People’s Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb. 💣 It would be one of the world’s few powers with access to the devestatingly powerful hydrogen bombs. ☢ Nuclear bombs have proven to be so destructive, that they have fortunately been in remission for a little over 75 years, although we all know they are just lurking under the surface waiting for their return some day, hopefully in the distant in the future. 💥
Weekend still seems to be pretty nice start to summer. 🏖 Saturday, a chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 82. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Maximum dew point of 63 at 1pm. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 78. Maximum dew point of 59 at 9am. Typical average high for the weekend is 80 degrees.
One month 📅 from now will be Cow Appreciation Day 🐂 when the sun will be setting at 8:31 pm with dusk at 9:04 pm.
